St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-25


make the gross earnings law cover the
situation would give AN unfair advan-
tage to the roads that hold large bodies
of land for speculative purposes over
those having no outside property, The
late auditor does not question the just
ness of the tax, and his fever of solic-
itude over the legal propriety of the
measure has its origin in an unwise
attempt cover his own blounder.
THE new colony that came out from
New England this season, or rather the
nucleus of large eOinmuiiity, and
pushed out far beyond Tie Tines of civ
iliZation to the unbroken wilds of Het-
linger county, have already established
a newspaper at New England City, the
Rainy Buttes Sentinel thit compares
favorably with the newspapers of the
territory, and is able to afford a two-col-
umn salutatOry defining its position in
politics, temperance, religion and all
the other great issues seen from the
shack and dugout of the pioneer settler
There is suggestion of their Pilgrim an
cestors in the Statement-that the people
all suspend labor on Sunday and gather
in the printing Office to sing hymns and
indulge in religious worship. A church
and Sunday school were at once organ
lied. n community is being established
there that will be beard from in the flu
ture. Good reports of the land are sent
back to New England, and it is believed
very large migration will follow.
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IT WILL be remembered that short
time ago it was given out that the
South Dakota constitutional convention
met at Huron and adjourned to meet
there next January. The Bowdle Pho
neer has private information that the
convention consisted of Gen. CAMPBELL.
and two or three of his associates, and
exhibited colossal cheek in telegraph
ing over the country that they were the
South Dakota constitutional conven-
ton" The Pioneer, which is all in
fiuential Republican paper of the South,
regards this as a harmless hallucination
that that body really went to the bone
yard IN November, 1885, when the con-
stitution it framed was submitted to
vote in the South. The Brookings Press
says the vote for members of this
ancient convention was very light, but
not as light as it would have been had
it been known that an election entitled
man to life membership.
That Dakota is among the more sa-
luxurious and healthful regions of the
country is not the mere romance of i'm
migration literature. One indication of
its freedom from diseases is noticeable
in the fact that the drug business is
greatly less i'll proportion to population
than in the states. In the towns, ex-
cept where saloons are not licensed,
there are not half the drug stores usu-
ally found in Illinois and Indiana. The
physicians are also much less numer-
Gus, and very remarkable proportion
of their business is due to the generous
contributions of the patriotic married
people to the population. The under
takers are always grumbling at the
scanty business afforded them. In
Sioux Falls last year the death rate was
less than five in 1,000-an average per-
haps of Dakota towns-and hardly
third of the average of Eastern cities.
ONE of the North Dako papers as
signs as its reason for favOring division
that it would rid the North of the
cranky HUGH J. CAMPBELL and his
staff of political associates" Not much
weight would ordinarily be attached to
such an expression, but in the indiffer-
ence that prevails on the subject in that
section, the votes of many dawn to the
polls by the option question will actually
be controlled by as trivial a matter as
this. In fact, on both sides of the 46th
parallel, among the strongest reasons
assigned for division is the lack of har-
mOny be ween the men most prominent
in affairs OF the North and South. 1t is
not alleged that there is necessary con-
fiict of sectional interests OF politics, but
the leaders have often found it useful to
Subserve their schemes to draw the line
between the sections
AMONG those now visiting in Dakota
is a man named JAMES WHITE, who
was a pioneer in the Western states be-
fore there were any railroads. He con-
trasts the hardships and rough exper-
fences of the frontiersmen at those DAYS
with the palace-car migration Of Dakota
settlers. and thinks that tiie latter can
have very little conception of what it
used to mean to break up and 20 West.
He has seen those pioneers in Illinois.
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